Drugs

[caption id="attachment_479821" align="aligncenter" width="635"] Pfefferman family stoner time. (Amazon)[/caption]Back when there was a War on Drugs (a long, long time ago…probably when The Wire was first coming out), there was an idea that you could never show a protagonist getting high on television without some awful, life-altering consequences. Think of Jessie Spano getting “so excited” on Saved By the Bell, or Claire’s trial-run with meth right before learning about her father’s death on Six Feet Under.